Sorry Győr Not a Winner
As if crossing just the one border isn't exciting enough, this weekend allowed me the opportunity to cross two. After realising that Hungarian first tier football is now pretty close to Brno geographically, I booked a 6.25am Flixbus to Győr on the Saturday, with the return at 6.25pm on the Sunday. At the time of booking, I saw the early start as a bridge to cross when I got there, but surprisingly when that bridge came, it wasn't as bad as I'd feared. Though buses are infrequent (at least the cheap ones seem to be), Brno to Győr takes a mere three hours, with a good chunk of that spent static at Bratislava bus station. As for bridges themselves, Győr seemed to have plenty, as well as many other wonderfully charming aspects to make this a bit of a hidden gem. Being in between the likes of Prague, Bratislava and Budapest, it might be fair to say not too many people make the stop in Győr. In fact, its population is actually lower than that of Stevenage, but I'd sooner spen...